Trump has packed his transition team with Big Telecom lobbyists to help him destroy it.2

Jeffrey Eisenach has worked as a paid consultant for Verizon, and Mark Jamison is a former lobbyist for Sprint. Both are anti-net neutrality zealots, and these are the people Trump has put in charge of the Federal Communications Commission during the transition.

Jamison has been working on behalf of the telecommunications industry for decades and recently wrote—without a shred of evidence—that “net neutrality in the US is backfiring.”4 Eisenach called net neutrality “crony capitalism pure and simple.”5

But while things might seem bad for net neutrality now, we heard the same predictions of doom during the Obama administration, and even during the George W. Bush administration.

Comcast and their telecom lobbyist buddies have spent tens of millions of dollars to kill the free and open internet, but every time, we’ve stood up to them—and won.

To save the internet, we will use the power of the internet, organizing millions of people all over the country to make phone calls, sign petitions, and attend rallies and public hearings—whatever it takes to stop Trump from destroying net neutrality.

Weekly Action Item

Stop Trump TV. Go to freepress.net, sign up for emails and complete the contact form to the FCC opposing the Sinclair-Tribune merger. Freepress has filed a Petition to Deny the merger with the FCC. You can still send a comment directly to the FCC. You can see the filing here.